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hbx.The University will be closed for the holidays from Monday, December 24 through Tuesday, January 1.The Transitions Orientation program for all new students will be held on Tuesday, January 8, 2008.Xavier University of Louisiana.Basketball
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Looking for a last minute gift idea for the Xavier fan in your life?Then consider this: Xavier athletics is offering a limited number of Holiday Three Packs that features the annual matchup with the Dayton Flyers at Cintas Center.Musketeers And Wildcats Are...Give the Gift of Xavier Men...Michelle Winkler of Connect...Xavier Falls To No.You need the Flash 6 plugin to view the Countdown.Dayton in the Atlantic 10 opener.It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with St.Xavier is a masculine name.People
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Javier, the modern Spanish version
St.This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.For the school in New Orleans, see Xavier University of Louisiana.For other educational institutions using the name Xavier, see Xavier (disambiguation).Today, Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.It educates over 4,000 undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students annually.Xavier is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution.Graduate programs include education, counseling, English, theology, psychology, and business.History
The first Catholic institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory, Xavier was founded in 1831 as a men's college called the Athenaeum.Bishop John Purcell asked the Jesuits to take control of the school in 1840, and the name was changed to Xavier, after the 16th century Spanish Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier.Xavier is the fourth oldest Jesuit University and sixth oldest Catholic university in the United States.Initially located in downtown Cincinnati, Xavier moved to a location about 5 miles from downtown in 1919.Xavier initially included both a high school and a college.Saint Xavier High School and the college separated over a period of time in the early 20th century, with final financial separation coming in 1934.Xavier first admitted women in 1969.In recent years, a number of building projects have been completed on campus, including the Cintas Center, Schiff Family Conference Center, the Gallagher Student Center, and the restoration of a number of buildings.In 2006 Xavier began its year long 175th anniversary celebration.Core curriculum
Undergraduate students attending Xavier must complete a significant number of distribution requirements that are more commonly known as the Core Curriculum.More than half the classes a student takes at Xavier are not in their major field.There are required courses in: Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Fine Arts, History, Physical Science, Literature, Foreign Language, and the Social Sciences.All Xavier students, upon completion of a bachelor degree, have read the Republic (Plato), Discourse on Method, and selections from the Bible among other original texts.Major requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Core Curriculum (see above) and comply with departmental requirements.Williams College of Business).Students in the other colleges (the College of Social Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences) generally have to complete at least 60 credit hours of courses within the major and electives within the College.Politics Philosophy and the Public (PPP), Honors Arts Bachelor (HAB), and Philosophy require a written thesis and defense before a selected committee.Philosophy also requires a written comprehensive exam.Grading scale
In 2005 Xavier switched to the plus minus grading system, after using the simpler A, B,C,D,F scale since the university's inception.VF (Vanished Failure) for students who do not attend class regularly.Quality Point per credit hour.Notable faculty
Arthur J.Dewey, New Testament scholar
Norman Finkelstein (poet)
Richard Polt, Heidegger Scholar, and Manual Typewriter Enthusiast.The campus covers approximately 125 acres and features both residential and academic malls.The Gallagher Student Center, a general gathering place for students and visitors, is located in the center of the main residential mall.The Cintas Center, where the Musketeers host their basketball games, and the home of the Hoff Student Dining Center, is located adjacent to that same main residential mall.The Academic Mall features Hailstones Hall (which houses the Williams College of Business, along with Professor offices and classrooms for both graduate and undergraduate classes), Alter Hall (a general use building which features Kelly Auditorium, the largest instruction room on the campus; computer labs open for general student use; a language lab; classrooms; and the Offices of the Bursar, the Registrar, Student Success and Retention, and the CAPS program), the Lindner Family Physics Building (home to science labs, classrooms, and Professor Offices); Logan Hall, Hinkle Hall, Albers Hall, Schmidt Hall, and Schott Hall (the tallest building on campus), which house both Professor offices and some classrooms; Edgecliff Hall (home to the Music Department); and the McDonald Library.This serves as the campus chapel and holds daily masses which, though open to the public, are frequented mainly by students.Graham, the University's current President).On the Opposite side of Victory Parkway from both the Academic and Residential Malls is the Athletic Mall.This is where the Armory, Hayden (Baseball) Field, Corcoran (Soccer) Field, Schmidt Fieldhouse, Elet Hall, Joseph Hall and the O'Connor Sports Center are located.The President's Message summarizes the mission of the school by saying, "Xavier University is dedicated to engaging and forming students intellectually, morally and spiritually, with rigor and compassion, toward lives of solidarity, service, and success."Xavier competes at the NCAA Division I level in the Atlantic Ten Conference, and their mascot is D'Artagnan the Musketeer.Xavier sponsors eight intercollegiate sports for men, and eight sports for women.The Xavier University Athletic Department also boasts the second highest graduation rate for athletes in the nation behind Stanford University and Bucknell University.Xavier sports teams have several traditional rivalries with local universities, including Cincinnati.The Xavier men's basketball team is perhaps the best known of the sports sponsored at Xavier.The team has enjoyed considerable recent success, reaching the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament in 2004.The school has also graduated every men's basketball player since 1985.WLW is also the flagship station of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats basketball games.When both teams play the same night, Xavier games are aired on WKRC.Byron Larkin does color commentary.Fox Sports Net Ohio holds the local television rights to the Musketeers basketball games.TV, have held the rights to Xavier games in the past.Field, both Indoor and Outdoor (Men's and Women's Teams)
Xavier fielded an NCAA Division I football team until the 1973 season."Xavier Football: Undefeated since 1973."In 2006, a club football team was formed and was an immediate success despite losing every game in its inaugural season.In 2007, Xavier also led in the creation of the Midwestern Club Football Conference, formed out of club teams at Miami (OH), Marquette University, Xavier, and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Midwest Club Football Conference championship.Notable alumni
Xavier is the alma mater to several notable politicians, public servants and corporate executives.President Cincinnati Board of Education, Community activist
J.Buenger, former CEO, Fifth Third Bancorp.Senator from Kentucky, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
John A.Founder of Adobe Systems
Richard Hague, American poet
Patricia Herbold, United States Ambassador to Singapore
Bill Kelly, Vice Chairman and Owner of Jelly Belly Co
Ken Lucas, former U.Founder of Redox Brands
George A.Xavier High School
The creator of the comic A Couple of Guys got his start writing for the Xavier Newswire.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. |
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